Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism

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157 academia: and Christgau’s grading of popular music, 117; and education, 50, 64; and employment of music critics, 6–7; and journalism/criticism, 4, 6–8, 10–12, 133–36 Aesthetics of Rock, 119, 149n36. See also Meltzer, Richard alternative weeklies. See underground press amateurism: and journalism, 16–17, 28, 31–32; 65; and music, 41. See also professionalism Arendt, Hannah, 11, 49 ASCAP, 52 Atlantic Records, 79 authenticity, 75–79, 82, 85–86, 88–90, 92, 100, 109–10, 112–14 baby boom, 50–51, 149n50 Bangs, Lester, 16, 126, 138n12 Baraka, Amiri, 13, 104–5. See also Blues People Beatles, 14, 53, 61, 64, 66, 70–71, 126; and Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 86, 90–92 Beat generation, 17, 26–27, 34, 62 Berkeley Barb. See underground press Big Brother and the Holding Company. See Joplin, Janis Black Arts movement, 104–6, 114. See also Baraka, Amiri; Neal, Larry black power, 100, 103–7, 110, 113–14 blogs, 4, 128, 132–36; and Expert Witness , 134–35 blues, 105–6, 108–14, 121 Blues People, 105–6 BMI, 52 bohemianism, 17, 21, 23–27, 30, 37, 46, 88. See also intellectualism Bourne, Randolph, 10 Brooks, Van Wyck, 10, 47 Brown, James, 103, 107–8 capitalism: art’s relationship to, 26; criticism as function of, 9, 75, 98, 119; hip, 82–84; rock’s relationship to, 52, 69, 71, 79–81, 86, 90, 97, 100; Village Voice’s practice of, 32–33 CBS (Columbia) Records, 80, 144n27 Cheetah magazine, 2, 17, 58 Christgau, Robert: as an academic, 6; biography of, 116; and death of rock trope, 96–98; and fragmentation, 123–24; identity politics of, 19, 102; influence on rock criticism, 2–3, 18–19, 28, 101; and monoculture, 127–28; and postmodern criticism, 115, 117–22, 153n76; and rock criticism as publicity, 9, 81–82; and soul music, 107–8; and work after the Village Voice, 134–35; and writers who influenced, 62, 146n92. See also academia, blogs; Consumer Guide Columbia University, 26, 30, 46, 64, 95 INDEX 158 Index Commentary, 2 “company freaks,” 79–82 Consumer Guide, 117–23, 134 counterculture, 50–51, 65, 82–84, 86, 93–97, 99, 106 Country Joe and the Fish, 96 Crawdaddy!, 14–15, 58, 64, 77, 87. See also Williams, Paul Cream, 125 Creem magazine, 16, 95, 115–116, 123, 126 Democratic National Convention of 1968, 95, 103 Dylan, Bob, 2, 40–42, 62–67, 77, 127, 143n78 East Village Other, 17 Eddy, Chuck, 5, 128, 135 Esquire magazine, 2, 34, 58, 62, 82, 107, 116 Expert Witness. See blogs Fancher, Edwin, 23, 29–33, 37 Felker, Clay, 134. See also New York magazine feminism. See gender; Firestone, Shulamith ; Willis, Ellen Firestone, Shulamith, 3, 102. See also gender; Willis, Ellen Fisher, Annie, 94–96, 111 folk, 19, 24, 76–77, 80, 91, 111, 114, 116; and folk rock, 14, 86; Goldstein’s fandom of, 63–64, 67; and revival, 21, 37, 108; in the Village, 37–42 Fong-Torres, Ben, 16. See also Rolling Stone magazine fragmentation, 22, 99–101, 112, 115, 124, 127–28, 131 Franklin, Aretha, 106, 111, 114 Frere-Jones, Sasha, 134 Frith, Simon, 6–7 The Fugs, 68–69 gender, 3, 18–19, 99, 100, 102–3, 117, 138n11 George, Nelson, 18, 128, 135 Gleason, Ralph J. 13, 61–62, 80, 109 Goddard, J.R., 40–41, 64 Goldstein, Richard: and 1 in 7, 64; as an academic, 6; biography of, 63–64; and death of rock trope, 74, 95–97; and debut of Pop Eye, 64; and fragmentation, 129; and hype, 21, 74–75, 85, 87–90, 92–94; identity politics of, 109–11; on inauthenticity, 86; influence on rock criticism, 2–3, 18–19; intellectual influences on, 54–58, 66–67; and mass culture critique, 21, 43–44 ; and pop criticism, 43–44, 58, 62–63, 67–73; and rock community, 77; and rock criticism as publicity, 82; on Sergeant Pepper ’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 90–92; and soul music, 66; and Dan Wolf, 34; writers who influenced, 59–60, 62–63. See also Pop Eye gonzo journalism. See New Journalism Gould, Jack, 60–61 Grateful Dead, 80, 88 Greenwich Village, 10, 23, 25–26, 36–38, 46, 65 Guthrie, Woody, 37, 41 Haight Ashbury, 85, 88. See also counterculture ; San Francisco Harlem, 27–28, 110; Renaissance, 48, 104 Hendrix, Jimi, 106, 110 Hentoff, Nat, 13, 62, 109 highbrow culture, 47, 28, 54. See also mass culture debates The...